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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. x. DEC. 12, igos.

James of Hereford intimating that he concurs in the judgment."

This is the first instance, I believe, recorded in the Law Reports of " judgment by telegram " ; it opens a pleasant and almost unbounded range of possibility in the dispatch of business.

W. H. QUARRELL.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses^ to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

RAID OF THE BISHOP OF NORWICH IN 1383. I should like to know if an English author published a book about this raid, and gave, with some circumstantial accounts, the names of Henry Despenser's partners. A. DEMEULDRE.

38, Rue Neuve, Soignies, Belgium.

JUSTICE HAYES'S ' WITHIN TEMPLE GAR- DENS.' The late Mr. Justice Hayes (Queen's Bench, Ireland) wrote ' Within Temple Gardens,' which Mr. James Payn in The Illustrated London News of lo Dec., 1880, called " one of the best legal poems." I should be much pleased to know where I might find the poem. RICHARD LINN. 38, Worcester Street, Christchurch, N.Z.

STEEPE SURNAME. Can any reader of N. & Q.' furnish me with information as to the origin and country of the above surname ? My duties frequently call me into the Never Never Country, and I should like to forward the information to its ulti- mate destination before leaving for the long trail to the north.

S. MclNTOSH MACROBERTS. Arnprior, Ontario.

" MANYTICE." In what is apparently a sixteenth-century copy of the 1391 court roll of the manor of Birchanger (Essex) is the entry :

" Dulcia Springold habet mium Manytice obstu- patum, per quod cursus aque obstfruiturl iuxta oroftam.

Is " Manytice " a copyist's error, or a real word ? In the first alternative, what does it represent ? In any case, what does it mean ? Q. y.

MEETS OF HOUNDS ANNOUNCED IN CHURCH. I am told that it was not an uncommon practice fifty or sixty years ago, in hunting centres, for clergymen to announce in church

the meets of hounds for the ensuing week. I mention a concrete instance in Baily's Magazine for the current month, but shall be glad if any readers of ' N. & Q.' can give me further instances or say how far the practice was general.

WLLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

IVERACH : ITS PRONUNCIATION. Can any one tell me what is the accepted pronuncia- tion of this name ? I have heard the first two syllables so pronounced as to rime to- "diver," but I have also heard it sounded " Eeverach." Which is correct ? There are one or two other proper names in which i is sounded, at any rate by some speakers, like ee. I have heard Skrine called " Skreen," and Bolitho " Boleetho."

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. To whom is the following due ?

Beaucoup de personnes voudraient savoir, Mais peu desirent apprendre.

Hie ET UBIQUE.

Two men looked through prison bars : The one saw mud, the other stars. Whence ? Asked at 10 S. vi. 229, but without result. K. P. D. E.

" For nearly five years the present Ministry have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class and institution, and species of property in the country." Did Disraeli ever say this ? If so, when

and where ?

L. K.

DANIEL FAMILY. The Rev. Mark Noble prepared ' An Account of the Family of Daniel in Cornwall, with Incidental Notices of Others of the Same Name,' a quarto MS. of about 300 pp. Can any one give me information of its present whereabouts ? Apparently it was in existence in 1826, and passed through one of Thorpe's catalogues of MSS. about 1834. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

CARD TERMS. In Lilly's ' Ancient Ballads and Broadsides,' dating 1559-97, on p. 123 are found the rules for playing the game of | " Mawe " (see Halliwell). I shall be glad of an explanation of the italicized words in the extracts below :

" If you ront (not having the ace) you lose power

and al the vied [betted on] cards If you make

out the cards when your mate rnbbeth, it is the losse of power, for the roubber must make out the carde

him self e You may not aske a carde to set the

contrary part or your selfe at living* or out If

you meane to lead a helpe you may vie it upon your bwne asked card, &c.

H. P. L.